Development of automated image stitching system for radiographic images

Samsudin, S. and Adwan, S. and Arof, Hamzah and Mokhtar, Norrima and Ibrahim, F. (2012) Development of automated image stitching system for radiographic images. Journal of Digital Imaging, 26 (2). pp. 361-70. ISSN 0897-1889, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-012-9483-5.

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Abstract

Standard X-ray images using conventional screen-film technique have a limited field of view that is insufficient to show the full bone structure of large hands on a single frame. To produce images containing the whole hand structure, digitized images from the X-ray films can be assembled using image stitching. This paper presents a new medical image stitching method that utilizes minimum average correlation energy filters to identify and merge pairs of hand X-ray medical images. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated in the experiments involving two databases which contain a total of 40 pairs of overlapping and non-overlapping hand images. The experimental results are compared with that of the normalized cross-correlation (NCC) method. It is found that the proposed method outperforms the NCC method in classifying and merging the overlapping and non-overlapping medical images. The efficacy of the proposed method is further indicated by its average execution time, which is about five times shorter than that of the other method. © 2012 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine.

Item Type: Article
Funders: UNSPECIFIED
Additional Information: Samsudin, Salbiah Adwan, Somaya Arof, H Mokhtar, N Ibrahim, F eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2012/05/23 06:00 J Digit Imaging. 2013 Apr;26(2):361-70. doi: 10.1007/s10278-012-9483-5.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Artifacts, Automation, Hand/*radiography, Humans, *Phantoms, Imaging, *Radiographic Image Enhancement, Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Radiology Information Systems/*organization & administration, Sensitivity and Specificity
Subjects: T Technology > T Technology (General)
T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User: Mr Jenal S
Date Deposited: 12 Feb 2014 01:13
Last Modified: 11 Oct 2018 04:05
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/9278

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